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A. E. TULLOOH.

WHIP SOCKET SUPPORT.

No. 440,447. Patented Nov. 11, 1890.

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER E. TULLOCI-I, OF LEADVILLE, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND L. GREENVALD, OF SAME PLACE.

WHIP-SOCKET SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,447, dated November 11, 1890. Application filed July 31., 1890. Serial No. 360,509. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER E. TUL- LOOH, of Leadville, in the county of Lake and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Whip-Socket Supports, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved device for the attachmentof a whip-socket to a vehicle and has for its objects to provide a simple, cheap, neat, and convenient supporting-bracket for the purpose indicated.

To these ends my invention consists in the peculiar construction of the bracket-support and its combination with a whip-socket and vehicle body or seat, as is hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

- Figure 1 is a front elevation of one end of a vehicle-seat broken, the improved whipsocket bracket in place, one limb being broken on the line 1'1 in Fig.2, and. a whipsocket clamped on the bracket; and Fig. 2 is a detached view of the whip-socket-supporting bracket.

As usually constructed, whip-sockets are adapted for attachment to the dash-board of a vehicle. Experience has shown that a more convenient location for the whip is afforded by securing the holder or whip-socket at the right hand of the driver on the end of the seat or its frame. The device herein shown is specially designed to retain a whip-socket of any preferred form in stable connection with a vehicle-seat or the supporting-frame of the seat, as will appear from the description.

The whip-socket-supporting bracket A is made of metal which will admit of bending and retain the set given-such as malleable iron, brass, or soft steel-and is comprised of a straight stem (1, of sufiicient length to receive the clamps I), usually provided asa portion of a whip-socket B, which may be of any approved form of construction. At the top of the stem a there is a flattened integral flange 0 formed, which extends laterally from the stem and is preferably split and spread to afford two limbs c on its free-end portion. The flange is bent at d to project the limbs c at any desired angle from the flange 0. The limbs c are preferably secured byscrews, as at 0 upon the end of the cushion guard or 5 5 rail of the seat 0, as shown in Fig. 1. The diverging limbs c, that are attached to the end pieces a of the cushion-guard, are given such an inclination from the integral flange c that the stem a of the bracket A will be retained in a perpendicular position and hold the whipsocket B at the side of the vehicle close to the hand of the driver.

It is evident that the limbs o may be bent at (Z to produce any proper angle at this point and so adapt the bracket A to fit upon the seat end piece a and suit the degree of inclination of the same from the seat-frame f. It is also feasible to secure the limbs o of the bracket A upon the straight or outwardly- 7o flaring skirt-board of a vehicleseat or upon the frame f, if this is desired. I

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I 7 5' A whip-socket bracket comprised of a stem having an integral lateral flange at its upper end, which flange is downwardly bent at a point between the stem and free ends of the flange and split in its end portion to form divergent limbs thereon, and perforations for securing it to a vehicle-seat, substantially as set forth.

ALEXANDER E. TULLOGH.

Witnesses:

B. F. STICKLEY,

R. D. MORROW. 

